[Elecraft] a Brag... K6III 1st place in QRP Sparton Sprint

Thu Jun 5 14:04:00 2003

Jerry
Could you save any more on weight using AAA NiMH batteries?
73, Bob N6WG

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Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 8:35 AM
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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] a Brag... K6III 1st place in QRP Sparton Sprint

Fortunately, John, the weight of the tower/antenna/coax does not figure
into the scoring! The weigh-in stops at the RF connector on the rig. Most
ops can cut down on the weight by choice of rig, key and power source. I
am building up a QRP RockMite kit and probably gonna power it with 8 AA
batteries. There are a number of interesting very light weight (1-oz)
paddles available. My Bencher weighs 3 pounds plus! The lightest weight
rig I saw on the SP entries was .77 pounds from K0EVZ. Power limit for
the SP is 5-watts, but you will find a number of ops running between
100mw and 500mw! Now there's a challenge!
Jerry/k6iii
San Jose, CA
K2 s/n 500

On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 11:16:13 -0400 (EDT) John Fraizer
<[email protected]> writes:
> On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Jerry Bliss wrote:
> 
> the 1st Monday evening of each month. Interesting scoring having 
> to do with the weight of the equipment. I weigh-in at 14.12 pounds with

> my K2 rig (including battery, paddle and earphones).
> I did a 20m-only, CW entry, running 4-watts to a Force12 C4 at 50ft.
> 
> de Jerry/k6iii
> 
> Jerry, surely that Force12 C4 weighs more than enough to put you 
> over the
> 14lb mark. ;-)
> 
> 73, John - K4WTF
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